Unit 4: Vocabulary from Readings 5

This list covers "'Hope' is the thing with feathers," "Scars," "Ozymandias," "Prayer to the Pacific," and "In Cold Storm Light."
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  1. gale
    a strong wind moving 34–40 knots
    And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard;
    And sore must be the storm—
    That could abash the little Bird
    That kept so many warm
  2. abash
    cause to be embarrassed
    And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard;
    And sore must be the storm—
    That could abash the little Bird
    That kept so many warm
  3. evoke
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
    They are the short stories of the flesh,
    can evoke the entire event
    in a moment—the action, the scent
    and sound—place you there a second time.
  4. endure
    undergo or be subjected to
    It’s as if the flesh decides to hold
    onto what threatens its well-being,
    They become part of the map marking
    the pain we’ve had to endure.
  5. ruthless
    without mercy or pity
    If only the heart were so ruthless,
    willing to document what it lived
    by branding even those sensitive
    tissues so information might flow back.
  6. brand
    burn with an iron to indicate ownership; of animals
    If only the heart were so ruthless,
    willing to document what it lived
    by branding even those sensitive
    tissues so information might flow back.
  7. visage
    the appearance conveyed by a person's face
    ...Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
  8. pedestal
    an architectural support or base
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
  9. colossal
    so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
    Round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.
  10. immemorial
    long past
    And so from that time
    immemorial,
    as the old people say,
    rain clouds drift from the west
    gift from the ocean.
  11. pinon
    any of several low-growing pines of western North America
    The wind is wet
    with the smell of piñon.
Created on Tue Jan 12 09:43:41 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 13 10:57:32 EST 2021)

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